Graduation ceremonies for the 34 public high schools in Boston began last week and will continue through next week. The more than 4,100 students graduating from one of the country’s most diverse school systems come from more than 100 different countries. WBUR’s Delores Handy joins Morning Edition to introduce us to one of these notable graduates: Fatuma Mohamed, who was born […]

Guided by theoretical calculations led by Arun Bansil, a professor of physics at Northeastern University, researchers found that a gap between different groupings of energy bands in the sample material actually shrank as electrons were added, reducing the material’s stored energy level – like the water level appearing to decline in the cup example.In principle, […]

Channeling March Madness: “You could do a playoff round where it’s almost NCAA brackets,” said Alan Schroeder, author of “Presidential Debates: 40 Years of High-Risk TV” and journalism professor at Northeastern University. “You could literally have four rounds at a time, and you could let voters and viewers vote in real time on who won […]

This week is a big one for America’s global relations. While Congress started hashing out whether to hand the president authority to finish the largest trade deal in history, Obama was wrapping up the G-7 economic summit in Germany. Beneath the talking points, what are America’s real priorities when it comes to the rest of […]

“It was not a surprise decision because it fits in a rich tradition of criminal law cases by the Supreme Court holding that there must be a blameworthy mental state in order for the defendant to be found guilty,” said Daniel Medwed, who teaches criminal law at Northeastern University. In the brave new online world, […]

Philosophy Professor Patricia Illingworth of Northeastern University said she thinks it’s okay for applicants to modify their name to avoid implicit bias “to get their foot in the door,” but considers this type of behavior uncourageous. “My concern with lying or gaming the system by misrepresenting your name and cultural background is you maintain the […]

“24 Hours in the Life of a Swiss Cuckoo Clock” contains 24 cuckoo clock designs created by students and faculty the Geneva University of Art and Design. The pieces, on display at Northeastern University’s Gallery 360, update the look of an old and whimsical way of telling time. Cuckoo clocks developed in the Black Forest […]

It’s Friday at 4 p.m. and anxiety is setting in. You were so busy this week that somehow, it totally slipped you mind to make weekend plans—and now, you’re left frantically texting friends and trying to round something up. It’s a scenario that Northeastern alum Akaash Yadav and Armaan Gupta often ran into during school, […]

New government research shows that female military veterans commit suicide at nearly six times the rate of other women, a startling finding that experts say poses disturbing questions about the backgrounds and experiences of women who serve in the armed forces. Their suicide rate is so high that it approaches that of male veterans, a […]

In research for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Northeastern University economist Rand ­Ghayad sent nearly 5,000 mock applications in response to job postings. He found that résumés showing unemployment lasting more than six months were uniformly rejected — even when those applications listed significant work experience. In other words, Ghayad said, companies were more […]

In addition, people who have given up job searches, meaning that they are no longer counted as unemployed, or who work part time because they cannot find full-time jobs, number about 150,000 — double the number before the recession, said Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economics professor at Northeastern University. But the benefits of the state’s improving […]

The numbers are startling. But not necessarily telling, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist from Northeastern University in Boston, who suggested that Chicago is in some ways the victim of its own success in reducing violence from its high-water mark a couple of decades ago. “Maybe (Chicago) just started to hit a low point with […]